Buying and Selling the Poor - Inside Australia's Privatised Welfare-to-Work Market (Paperback)

BUYING AND SELLING THE POOR ventures behind the scenes of the multibillion-dollar welfare-to-work system, offering new insights into how Australia responds to unemployment and disadvantage. As the authors tell the story of four local employment offices, they paint a vivid picture of a critically important social service which many people are aware of but which few properly understand. They also reveal the wider impacts that processes of marketisation and welfare reform have had on these frontline services over decades, and how the work of frontline staff and service providers has been transformed. BUYING AND SELLING THE POOR looks closely at how these services operate, why some succeed where others fail, and what can be learned from the stories of staff and clients who have navigated the system. Three decades into this market experiment, how well are we doing in supporting our most vulnerable citizens to get back to work?

General

Imprint:	Sydney University Press
Country of origin:	Australia
Series:	Public and Social Policy Series
Release date:	December 2021
First published:	2021
Authors:	Siobhan O'Sullivan • Michael McGann • Mark Considine
Dimensions:	210 x 148 x 17mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - A5: Tankobon
Pages:	276
ISBN-13:	978-1-74332-786-9
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social welfare & social services > General
LSN:	1-74332-786-2
Barcode:	9781743327869

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